13 Nov 1847
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Newspaper
Bristol Phenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Nov 13, 1847
Page
1
The article argues civilization advances through sympathy for the poor and wealth restraint. It asserts almsgiving alone fails without heart, urging societies to awaken genuine feeling even in unlikely places, quoting Grantley Manor on finding kindness amid barrenness.
A sketched scene features a pleading petitioner appealing to a nobleman for money and common descent, followed by a jest about riches. A poor man seeks medical help from a doctor who applies a mustard plaster, lamenting that it may be a failing remedy.
In a tense pact, Peter Ellis borrows four to five years of farming from John Tiller to restore a worn ten acre field. Ellis repays with honesty after the land prospers, while Tiller forgives debt and delivers additional funds. The two men reconciled, noting acts of mercy outshone vengeance and transformed their lives.
The piece argues that sustained thought contradicts natural tendencies yet is driven by social stimuli such as ambition and need. It claims civilization spurs thought, viewing civilization as soil for thought and law’s energy to overcome innate inaptitude, with artificial states exciting thought.
A writer denounces widespread ignorance as the root of wars, steamboat disasters, and bad governance. He urges public effort to inform neighbors and voters about political principles, virtues, and the afterlife judgments. A Western editor jokes about paid subscriptions in wood and notes on rubber paper for laws.
A rough dialogue from a historic stove foundry scene shows a green applicant boasting humor as the proprietor tests his wit The applicant quips about his skill in pitching gates and earns a moment of laughter in a terse exchange.
Tiller visits Peter Ellis to propose aid and bids fair treatment, demanding no harm to his property. Ellis, pressed by an execution for six hundred dollars, confronts a shift from old enmity to cautious reconciliation as the community watches.
Rhode Island General Assembly enacts amendments to forms of writs and service rules for witnesses before grand juries and courts, sets security recognizance of 100 dollars for non-appearance, repeals provisions restricting Dowling Alley, authorizes taxes on bowling alleys, empowers city officials to enforce orders, and outlines court depositions and clerk indexing duties, plus funding for poor relief and insane custody. The measures involve Henry Bowen as secretary and cover equity procedures, theater and amusement regulations, and town funding for asylums.
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